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Quantum Genetics ? Link, thanks to the other Ian Glendinning, to New Scientist summary of paper by Apoorva Patel linking the existence of precisely 4 bases in DNA to Quantum Computing algorithms at work in genetics. Contains a link to the full technical paper (pdf) Intriguing.

I’ve captured several more important links, originally embedded in the blog, now in the sidebar. Sasha’s is completely new to me and quite inspiring. These are rich links, though not necessarily all frequently updated blogs. (Still need to sort out old archives and link to new pages, so much search engine traffic is hitting the … Continue reading “Links Update”

I’ve been using Argyris work together with emperor’s suit of clothes analogy in my Rationalisation thread for some time, but just discovered that Argyris published a Harvard Business Review paper with that title only a couple of years ago (1998).

Gimboland. Another intersted blog (spotted by Jorn), added to the side-bar.

The Wunderkind has no Clothes. (Via Jorn again). Quote from Heinz Pagels in a Wired review by Steven Levy of Stephen Wolfram’s meisterwerk “A New Kind of Science“.“Most scientists will find it difficult to believe that there’s a better way to do science.” OTT, unscientific, but intriguing thesis based on complexity underlying all phenomena, and … Continue reading “The Wunderkind has no Clothes”

Music, Mind & Meaning. Michael brought this Minsky paper to my attention last night. (It’s actually a chapter from The Neuropsychology of Music, ed Manfred Clynes, Plenum, NY 1981). The paper itself is also available on line at Marvin’s site.

One of my threads is (4) “Many a True Word” (spoken in jest). I now notice that Minsky has already covered the place of humour in knowledge, and in fact draws on Freud too.

BBC Radio 4 Today this morning, interviewing a head teacher and a local authority administrator about boring “safe” school playgrounds with no chance of injury – hit all key points. Individually all three in the studio arrived at same “some level of risk is a good thing” conclusion and noticed they’d agreed, but all said … Continue reading “Litigious Society”